The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-19
The Magazines

The illustrations for the March Widt
Apake are particularly fine. II has for
frontispece one OF Hassam's wetday
pictures entitled a Late March After
noon" Garrett, too, has some characters
tic work both in his strong drawings foI
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spoirords ballad
Blind Milton and his ianciful sketches
for Miss Guiney's Fairy Folk AL" Be
Sides which there are many others of more
or less merit and importance, But perhaps
the most interesting features are among
the unl!ustra,ed articles which include
the last of "The Longfellow Papers,
" Long elbow and the Children" by Rev
Samuel Longfellow a delightful botanical
paper by Grant Allen, entitled A New
England Flower" u little Roman adven.
ture by Mary Densil, called Mans BAN
bino;" "A good story by Penn Shirley, "A
Boys Lawsuit" also sketch of Western
school girl editor, "A Colorado Wasp"
The first instalment of the collection of
unpublished letters Of Thackeray, TO be
published in Scribner's Hdga=ine, will ap
pear in the April number. The letters will
be preceded by an introduction by Mrs
Brookheld, to whom most of them were
written. They will be arranged IN a sim.
pie chronological order, regardless of their
relative importance, and will be accom-.
panied by Mrs Brookfeld's and by other
notes In the arrangement of the letters,
AS well as in some additional annexation,
the editor has had the privilege of advice
and assistance from Mr.. James Russell
DWELL, who kindly consented, with the
cordial approval and thanks Of Mrs. Brook.
field, to give this aid in their preparation
for the press. A brief note from Mrs
Richie 10 Mrs. Brookfeld is also printed
with the irst instalment expressing cor.
dial pleasure In the knowledge of Mrs.
Brookfelds intended publication. Mr.,
Brookfeld was clergyman of the Church
of England, distinguished preacher,
Chaplain in Ordinary &c the Queen, and
one of Her Majestys Inspectors OF Schools.
He was especially favored in his literary
friendships. When at Cambridge he was
the intimate associate Of Arthur Hallam
and Tennyson, and 1t was at Mr.. Brook.
fields death, in memory of these days,
that the Laureate wrote the sonnet begin.
ming:
Brooks for they call'd you so that knew you
best,
Old Brooks, who loved so well to mouth my
rhymes,
How oft we two have heard st. Marys chimes
How oft the Cantab supper. host and guest.
Would echo helpless laughter to your ie-tI''
In later years his friends included many
names famous in the ranks of literature
Carlyle, Kinglake, Lord Houghton and
many others were among the nxmber-
and, as these letters show, he was on terms
of the closest intimacy with Thackeray.
Miss Thackeray Mrs. Rltchie) wrote TO
Lord Lyttelton that Mr.. Brookfield was
the Frank Whitestock" of her fathers
SKETCH THE Curate's Walk"
DR. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, than whom
there is no better authority, will open the
April Popular Science Monthly with an able
article entitled Brain. Forcing In Child.
hood" The paper gives vivid picture of
the evils of book. examining process, now
SO common in both public and private
schools, and also contains strong plea for
fewer studies, more direct contacts with
Nature and less of the Intervention OF
books.